Comment Re:This is just sheer stupidity. (Score 1) 417
>>due to a disagreement over economic systems.
The Communists/Socialists had a nasty habit of murdering millions of their own citizens. That was a compelling reason to keep them 'over there.'
Comment Re:Ghosts (Score 1) 550
>>2) There're are no fact that could lead us to think after-life exists (from a scientifical point of view)
Given that it looks like there's an infinite number of universes and an infinite amount of time - I imagine that at some-point in that infinite space and time there will be a point where we will exist again.
Google's Chrome Declining In Popularity 489
holy_calamity writes "After launching in a blaze of publicity that even warmed Slashdot, Google's browser grabbed a 3% share of the market, but has been slipping ever since, and now accounts for 1.5%. Google has also stopped promoting the browser on its search page. Assuming they wanted it to grab a significant share of the browser market, have they dropped the ball, or is this part of the plan?" On Slashdot, Chrome is still the #4 browser (after FF, IE, and Safari) but it was ahead of Safari for a few days, hitting almost 10% of our traffic.
Weapon Found in Whale Dated From the 1800s 661
LABarr writes "AP and CNN are carrying a story that has forced scientists to re-evaluate the longevity of mammals. A bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt over a century ago. 'Embedded deep under its blubber was a 3½-inch arrow-shaped projectile that has given researchers insight into the whale's age, estimated between 115 and 130 years old. The bomb lance fragment, lodged in a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time. It was probably shot at the whale from a heavy shoulder gun around 1890.' "
